I am trying to do some arithmetic on values entered into a form using select option values. For some reason, I am getting undefined in the console instead of the result value.
function sum() {
const Start = Number(document.getElementById('Start1').value);
const End = Number(document.getElementById('End1').value);
const select = document.querySelector('select');
const choice = select.value;
let result;
select.addEventListener('change', setValue);
function setValue() {
if (choice === 'AM->PM') {
result = (12 - Start) + (End);
}
console.log(result);
document.getElementById('txtresult').value = result;
}
}<div id="box1">
<label for="Starting">Date:</label>
<input type="date" id="Date" name="Date"><br>
<label for="Starting">Start Time:</label>
<input type="text" id="Start1" placeholder="Start Time" name="Start_Time">
<!--Input #1-->
<br>
<label for="End Time">End Time:</label>
<input type="text" id="End1" placeholder="End Time" name="End_Time" onkeyup="sum()">
<!--Input #2-->
<select id="AM/PM">
<option value="">--AM/PM--</option>
<option value="AM">AM->AM</option>
<option value="AM">AM->PM</option>
<option value="AM">PM->AM</option>
<option value="AM">PM->PM</option>
</select><br>
<label for="result">Hrs Worked:</label>
<input type="text" id="txtresult" placeholder="Result"></p><br>
</div>Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
In your HTML, you have all of the <option>s defined with value="AM" except for the first (for which the value is empty). Because of this, your if within setValue:
if (choice==='AM->PM' ){
result = (12-Start)+(End);
}
will never evaluate to true and will therefore never set result to a value; it will remain undefined because you initialize it with let result;.
I would also like to point out that you are declaring const choice = select.value; in the sum function, but are not changing its value within the callback on change of the <select>. In effect, the value of choice will always be whatever the selected value is when sum is executed, and will not change when setValue is executed upon the user changing the select box.
Try changing your setValue function to this:
function setValue(){
choice = select.value;
if (choice==='AM->PM' ){
result = (12-Start)+(End);
}
console.log(result);
document.getElementById('txtresult').value = result;
}
and your HTML options to this:
<option value="">--AM/PM--</option>
<option value="AM->AM">AM->AM</option>
<option value="AM->PM">AM->PM</option>
<option value="PM->AM">PM->AM</option>
<option value="PM->PM">PM->PM</option>